First, we shall slide easily from a place represented to an imaginary place – I mean that these spaces that can, in theory, contain us, become spaces we contain. Those seemingly protective refuges, those precarious shelters, those homes diverted from their role of safety, are nothing more than rickety boxes in our troubled mind – they are mental boxes. Mental worries of the individual constantly torn between the desire to open himself to the world and explore it and the fear of being hurt or destroyed by its contact. (Eric Van Essche)

Michel Le Belhomme (1973, France) studied at Rennes Art School, currently his is professor of Photography in the School of Art in Rennes. He won the Mission Jeunes Artistes (2010, Toulouse) and the first Prix lacrtique.org– Voies Off, in Arles. His solo exhibitions included: Galerie le LAC GELé, nîmes, France (2013) and Cuadro Art Gallery, Dubai. www.muthos.fr